It was not long ago that many of us realized video – not the dimly lit jittery homemade variety, but true high quality HD video and television – was moving online. It happened. The sources for HD video are popping up all over the web: Hulu, Disney, Fancast, tv.com, and the networks ABC, CBS and NBC all offer Internet HD video. If you go to NASA’s site be prepared for an HD video experience. And it is not limited to watching. New laptops and desktops are empowering people to do things with rich media they could never do before. Now the question is: is your PC too old to play it?

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This whitepaper provides an overview of the Computrace solution that supports Intel Anti-Theft Technology-(Intel AT). Computrace, a leading IT asset-management and security solution from Absolute Software, is taking advantage of Intel Anti-Theft Technology (Intel AT), which is designed into system hardware. Absolute Software and Intel deliver a new level of theft deterrence and data defense through integrated hard-ware and software technologies for notebook PCs. Through Computrace, an authorized information technology (IT) administrator can remotely delete data on a notebook, or the notebook can now intelligently lock itself down and prevent an OS from booting. If the notebook is reported lost or stolen, the IT administrator simply flags it in the Computrace Web portal and sets up a “poison pill” so the next time the notebook “phones home,” it will be disabled. In both cases, whether the notebook locks itself down or receives a poison pill, and even if the hard drive is reformatted or replaced, anti-theft security options remain in place. Getting the system operational again is easy – authorized users can quickly restore the system with a one-time reactivation token provided by the IT department. IT now has a more reliable, robust approach to protecting assets and minimizing financial and/or legal risk from lost or stolen notebooks

For a video demonstration of Intel Anti-Theft Technology, be sure to check out Intel Anti-Theft Technology: Day at the Beach.

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Every day thousands of laptops are stolen or are lost. Most contain critical information. In this video, Intel’s Josh Hilliker gives us a demo of Intel Anti-Theft Technology. With this new “poison pill” feature, Intel can actually help prevent crime by remotely disabling a PC, and making it worthless to a a potential thief.

For more information, be sure to download the Computrace with Intel Anti-Theft Technology Whitepaper.

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Every hard disk will fail. That’s a reality few of us care to think about, although if you’ve ever tried to do work on your laptop on a plane you’ve been profoundly reminded that it doesn’t take much movement to cause a hiccup. That’s not good for the spinning hard disk that you rely on. Solid-state drives promise to radically change how your mobile PC experience. SSDs give you faster boot up times, faster application load times, longer battery life, and you can toss them across the room (not that you’d want to). In this video, Intel engineers do a side-by-side demo between solid-state drive and hard disk drive technology, and discuss how SSDs are not just for the mobile user: they can save energy for IT folks in servers. They also toss the SSD across the room.

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It’s sometimes difficult to remember what the enterprise environment was like before workforces were mobile. It’s sometimes difficult to understand why the simple reality of not being in the office might have prevented some of us from doing the work we needed to do. In this video podcast, two Intel executives recall how we got to this point.

The change from a desktop-driven world to our current and increasingly mobile business environment was swift, but it was also deliberate. Intel CIO Diane Bryant and IT PC Fleet Manager John Mahvi remember the conversations, they remember the risks, and they are continuing to steer Intel’s massive workforce into the future with increased mobility, constantly improving energy performance, and a wireless existence that will surely make today’s mobility seem as staid as yesterday’s desktop offices.

Intel has been measuring “total cost of ownership,” or TCO, since 1995. Says Mahvi, “We’ve seen a 67 percent improvement in TCO for a PC fleet over that time,” citing support cost decreases and the promise of Intel’s vPro manageability, which will allow those costs to continue to drop.

See also:
Transcript of Intel’s Enterprise Laptop Strategy

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What was Scoble up to one year ago today? Check out today’s video for a trip down memory lane.

Dean Haglund is a comedian, actor, and inventor. You might have seen him on the X-Files or other shows. He comes into PodTech to talk about his invention which keeps your laptop cool while you’re using it in your lap.

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In this video podcast, IT pros from the Enterprise Solutions Group at Intel join Josh Hilliker, manager of the Intel vPro Expert Center, to discuss vPro activation. Read more…

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